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In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with |
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--oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I |
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update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into |
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emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. |
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So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world to |
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world-bloated and running emerge --depclean -p just to see what would |
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happen. The answer is ... a loop! |
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There were a couple of missing or out of date packages and I emerged |
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them. But libusb has to be 10.6 to make some packages happy and 10.7 |
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to satisfy others. |
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I have been down this route before. I don't feel like unmerging |
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either side of the mess, and even if I didn't want the packages, it is |
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way too much hassle to unmerge them one by one as the list of unhappy |
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packages grows. |
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So, what is the proper way to recreate a proper world file? If |
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depclean can finally run one of these days when gentoo gets back in |
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sync, is staring with an empty world file as good as anything else? |
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The idea of trying to make intelligent guesses about which packages |
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are truly top level, out of 3000+ packages, is not enticing. |
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... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. |
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Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com |
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GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 |
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I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o |
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